Candles & Incense
Church calendar · 2026
2 February Monday
Old Style — 20 JanuaryToday
Week of the Publican and the Pharisee. Monday
Commemoration
Tap a name to open the life
4 of 5 names — the rest are in Georgian only
- St Euthymius the Great›
St Ekvtime the Confessor (Kereselidze)›
Sts Inna, Pinna and Rimma›
Sts Bassus, Eusebius, Eutychius and Basilides›
Readings
At Matins: Mt 11:27–30 (§43)
For the venerable: Heb 13:17–21 (§335); Lk 6:17–23 (§24)
Liturgical note
This text is in Georgian only for now
* ხსენების დღე დაწესდა წმიდა სინოდის 2003 წლის 18 აგვისტოს კრების განჩინებით.
The tone and the day's psalms
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This week's tone is 1Eight tones — the Octoechos
What is a tone?
A tone is not a psalm number. It is the mode in which that week's resurrection hymns are sung — the whole week's Vespers, Matins and Liturgy are set in one tone.
There are eight tones, and they change each week. The cycle opens with the first tone on Thomas Sunday after Pascha and returns to the first every eight weeks; Bright Week itself has no tone of its own. A new tone begins on Saturday evening, with the new church week.
The Psalter is divided into twenty kathismata and, by the usual rule, is read through once a week. Appointed for this day:
- At Matins · kathisma 4Psalms 24–31›
- At Matins · kathisma 5Psalms 32–36›
- At Vespers · kathisma 6Psalms 37–45›
This is the usual rule. In Great Lent the Psalter is read twice a week, and the kathismata are divided differently.
Word of the day
If you want to be prudent, do not be self-willed and self-assured, but submit your will to those who by their life and labour have put the divine vineyard in order, and from whom you will easily learn how to tend it. For it is laughable and shameful, when learning a simple trade, to keep going from one teacher to another, and yet to entrust divine wisdom to yourself, as though it were something of little account.
